HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

This last year has only reinforced the importance of agile leaders and a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The most challenging decision had to be leaving the finance organization to accept a position to lead a newly formed enterprise operational function. USAA takes great pride in its leadership development programs.

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Finance Diversity Leadership Development Maturity 59

N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

It is the mental agility, a fierce determination, and a never say die attitude that has carried us through the best of times and the worst of times. It is the ability to stay mentally focused on achieving the mission at hand, regardless of circumstances, that will help you take your organization to that next level.

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Brand Depreciation Blog Politics 353

HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

We also offer expanded coverage and support for mental health and provide employees with proactive financial wellbeing tools to improve management and finances and reduce financial stressors, including budgets, property and family planning. The biggest pivot happened during a trip to Silicon Valley when I was CEO of EY Canada.

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Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Only the CEO has the power to provide this kind of direction across the entire enterprise.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

It is the mental agility, a fierce determination, a never say die attitude, and placing other’s interests above our own that has carried us through the best of times and the worst of times. A leader’s greatest responsibility is not for his/her own glory, but it is for the well being of those whose care has been entrusted to them.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. The goal was to make IBM more agile and able to predict — even prescribe — where IBM's markets would go.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” The CEO, grinning, agreed with her. Don Farrall/Getty Images. What came next was a pleasant surprise.

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HR Digest

JULY 29, 2020

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. Senior HR leaders will need to be able to stand alongside the CEO to make better business decisions on areas such as: Turnover. In a rapidly changing world, companies can only succeed if they’re agile and adapt quickly.

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Attrition Talent Management Agility Innovation 98

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Finance Human resources' So, kudos to Charan for starting the conversation.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2019

Take a new competitive threat for example… (SENSE) Sales people might hear and observe their customers’ reactions to that threat – as might your market researchers, call center folks, external market experts, and even your finance team as they watch the erosion of market share and revenue. Recognizing this, what’s a great leader to do?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In our surveys, more than 66% of CEOs said they expect their companies to change their business model in the next three years, with 62% reporting they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their business more digital.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Once given permission to “think the unthinkable” via cross-functional teams, retailers can often realize material impacts on agility and costs. When CEOs lead these meetings, teams can raise any issues, big or small, and get them resolved in minutes. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These efforts have enabled operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and greater agility, preparing companies for the next phase of digital transformation: driving growth. Elisa Steele at Jive Software, Jay Farner at QuickenLoans, and Susan Lintonsmith at Quiznos have even gone from CMO to CEO. Up : CMOs are promoted into new roles.

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CEO Marketing Span of Control Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

I made a career switch seven years ago, when I went from working as a reporter at the Financial Times , where I covered health care in the United States, to consulting — advising CEOs in the pharmaceutical industry on thought leadership and articulating their corporate strategies. I talked with several CEOs at health care companies.

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Career Skills Health Care Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. Startups must be agile and adapt their value proposition several times until they get it right. Mike Harper, the former CEO of ConAgra, had a heart attack in 1986.

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Company Brand Venture Funding Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

For example, the executive team of Think Finance , a developer of financial products and one of the nation's fastest-growing private companies , gets together every day to review performance. CEO Ken Rees wrote to me that, "in an environment that's changing as quickly as ours, there are so many things to be worried about.

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Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

The only competitive advantage comes though agility, keeping ahead of the competition, moving on to the next technology wave. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs). As with American Airlines, each competitive advantage with IT is temporary. Competitors copy or suppliers commoditize to erase these advantages.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. GE is an icon of management best practices. But, as befits a company that has been around for 130 years, GE is moving on.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Its CEO, John Fallon, says of this approach, “It is by having a bigger impact on education — measured by expanding access and improving outcomes — that we will make Pearson a faster-growing and more sustainably profitable company.” ” Health care.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

In other cases, highly compensated boards literally run a company into the ground by churning through CEO after CEO (lack of strategic alignment). Another high-performing board immersed itself into a global financial services firm's complex financing activities, as it successfully navigated a financial crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world. ” Starting in the late 1990s, a series of CEOs saw the HP Way as a liability rather than an asset. But there may be more to the metaphor.

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How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As real space and cyberspace merge, do financial practices like budgeting provide value over their costs of time, money, effort, agility? CEOs sense the problem perhaps more than CIOs do. Many CEOs expect their next CIO to come from marketing instead of their or another IT shop. Now, however, the model is changing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. Decisions that once took weeks can now be made in moments as the team works together. Then he meets with employees.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. When HR becomes solely a talent race, boards and CEOs can miss the less obvious but equally vital value of managing both new hires and leaders who are facing increasing demands.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. Though the CEO may be driving, anyone sitting on the bow can get a direct line to the captain to suggest a change of direction. It wasn''t profitable, or scalable, but it was a brilliant way to learn what the business would really need. The boat can turn on a dime.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier Maes, the CEO of Contect, wrapped up his year-beginning speech to all the company’s employees. Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. ” Rogier handed the microphone over to Henning Haas, the CEO of Contect’s Germany group, and came backstage where Derek was waiting.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

Determined to get closer to their customers and become more agile and innovative, global organizations like IBM and GE are embracing the matrix organizational model. Give mid-level leaders a chance to take on advisory roles outside of line management in functions such as strategy, HR or finance. Implement rotational assignments.

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Management Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In this context, "corporate catalysts" — entrepreneurially-minded people inside corporates — are working with corporations' resources, scale, and growing agility to develop innovative solutions to global challenges. It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Here's how they did it, and how they're using social media tools to become more agile, to share knowledge, and to increase the speed of innovation. Unisys CEO Ed Coleman addressed this through leading by example. And, once it is built, they have a stake in its success."

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Media Productivity Products Company 15

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Social Chain Social chain is agile and able to evolve according to what’s happening on one of the best marketing platforms today, social media. According to Noah Kagan, the CEO of SUMO , Sujan is half-mad scientist and half content master. Content marketing cannot be done by someone in finance that kinda dabbles in writing.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Agility, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment and focus all lead to the creation of speed which results in a certainty of execution. While there is little debate that speed can create an extreme competitive advantage, it is not well understood that the lack of speed can send a company (or a career) into a death spiral.

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Blog Leadership Competitive Advantage Brand 419

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

CEOs must convince the board, markets, employees, and customers that what they are doing is valuable. MBA students are dutifully taught finance, strategy and operations as if revenue appeared by magic and salespeople were at best a necessary evil. Instead, what he looks for are intelligence, curiosity and an agile mind.

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